Puccini the Thinker

Author : John Louis DiGaetani

Paperback

Published : Tuesday 12 June 2001

ISBN : 9780820452142

Price : €41.54

Description

Puccini the Thinker traces Puccinis development as an opera composer and thinker. The subject is the composers ideas as they appear in his operas. The book, written for the operagoer and the admirer of Puccinis operas in addition to the musicologist, has chapters on all of Puccinis operas and divides them into three general categories: myth and vision; God, religion, and the Roman Catholic Church; and economics, politics, and society. Within these three subdivisions, this study explores the growth of Puccinis thought and dramatic skill.
In this book John DiGaetani analyzes the operas as artistic reflections of Puccinis intellectual and dramatic development. The book includes translations of many of the composers own verses, the first translations into English for most of these poems.

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